WAS
JUDAS ISCARIOT SAVED?
I)
JUDAS WAS CHOSEN BY OUR LORD BUT NOT ALL WHO ARE CHOSEN ARE CHOSEN TO BE
SAVED
A)
JUDAS WAS CHOSEN BY OUR LORD
1)
[Compare Mk 3:13]:
2)
[Compare John 6:70-71]:
3)
[Compare John 17:12]:
B)
NOT ALL WHO ARE CHOSEN ARE CHOSEN TO BE SAVED AND SERVE IN THE KINGDOM
1)
SOME ARE CHOSEN TO BE VESSELS OF DESTRUCTION
a)
[Compare Ro 9:14-24]:
2)
SOME UNBELIEVERS ARE CHOSEN TO SERVE THE LORD FOR HIS PURPOSES
a)
[Compare Isa 45:1-5]:
3)
SOME WERE CHOSEN TO BE DISCIPLES BUT WERE NOT ENABLED BY THE FATHER TO
BELIEVE AND BE SAVED AND THEY ALL WOULD BETRAY HIM
a)
[Compare Jn 6:60-65]:
4)
JUDAS WAS WERE CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE TWELVE BUT WAS 'A DEVIL' FROM THE
BEGINNING AND WOULD BETRAY JESUS
a)
[Compare John 6:70-71]:
II)
JUDAS WAS A DISCIPLE BUT NOT ALL DISCIPLES WERE BELIEVERS
A)
JUDAS WAS ONE OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES
1)
[Compare John 12:4]:
2)
[Compare John 6:70-71]:
3)
[Compare Lk 6:13-16]:
B)
A TRUE DISCIPLE IS ONE WHO IS COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING JESUS BUT JUDAS
GAVE EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS NOT SO COMMITTED
1)
[Compare Luke 14:26-27, 33]:
2)
[Compare Mt 12:49-50]:
C)
NOT ALL OF JESUS' DISCIPLES WERE BELIEVERS
1)
[Compare Jn 6:53-65]:
III)
JUDAS WAS CHOSEN TO BE AN APOSTLE YET HE GAVE EVIDENCE THROUGHOUT THAT
HE WAS A DEVIL FROM THE BEGINNING
A)
JUDAS WAS DECLARED TO BE AN APOSTLE BUT NOT FOR LONG - HE WAS TO BE
REPLACED
1)
[Lk 6:13]:
2)
[Acts 1:23-25]:
B)
AN APOSTLE IS SUPPOSED TO BE COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING JESUS BUT JUDAS GAVE
NO EVIDENCE OF THAT
1)
[Compare Luke 14:26]:
2)
[Compare Mt 12:49-50]:
3)
[Compare John 12:4]:
C)
JUDAS AS AN APOSTLE WAS APPARENTLY GIVEN THE AUTHORITY & POWER TO
PERFORM MIRACLES BUT NOT ALL WHO PERFORMED MIRACLES WERE SAVED.
1)
THE APOSTLES DID HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM MIRACLES
a)
[Mt 10:5-8]:
b)
[Mark 6:7]:
c)
[Compare Lk 10:17-20]:
2)
NOT ALL WHO PERFORMED MIRACLES WERE SAVED
a)
[Compare Jn 6:60-65]:
b)
[Compare Mk 9:38]:
c)
[Compare Acts 8:9-13]:
d)
[Compare Mt 7:21-23]:
D)
JUDAS HELD AN IMPORTANT PLACE IN THE CIRCLE OF THE TWELVE YET HIS
DESTINY WAS A GREEDY ONE WHICH WOULD LEAD TO BETRAYING OUR LORD AND HIS
OWN ETERNAL DESTRUCTION
1)
[Compare Acts 1:15-20]:
2)
[Compare Jn 12:3-6]:
3)
[Jn 13:29]:
IV)
GOD PLACED JUDAS IN OUR LORD'S INNER CIRCLE TO FULFILL PROPHECY AND
PROVE OUT THAT INSPITE OF GIVING JUDAS EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO BELIEVE AND
BE SAVED, GOD'S SOVERIGNTY WOULD PREVAIL AND HE WOULD CHOOSE TO BETRAY
JESUS INSTEAD
A)
PASSAGES WHICH INDICATE THE PROPHECY AND FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY ABOUT
JUDAS
1)
[Compare Zech 11:12-13; 13:7 PROPHECY]:
2)
[Compare Jer 19:1-13 PROPHECY]:
3)
[Compare Mt 26:14-16 FULFILLMENT]:
4)
[Compare Lk 22:1-4 FULFILLMENT]:
5)
[Ps 41:9 PROPHECY]:
6)
[Mt 26:47-50 FULFILLMENT]:
B)
THE ACCOUNT OF JUDAS POINTS TO THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY
1)
[Compare Jn 12:3-6]:
2)
[Compare Lk 10:17-20]:
3)
[Compare Jn 6:70]:
4)
[Compare John 17:12]:
5)
[Compare Jn 12:3-6]:
6)
[Compare Jn 13:2]:
7)
[Compare Mt 26:14-16]:
8)
[Compare Jn 13:21-28]:
V)
JUST AS ONE WHO IS A DEVIL CANNOT BE ONE WHO IS OF GOD, SO JUDAS WAS A
DEVIL FROM THE BEGINNING AND COULD NOT HAVE BEEN OF GOD, I.E., SAVED
A)
ONCE ONE IS SAVED ONE IS PERMANENTLY INCLUDED INTO CHRIST WHICH RULES
OUT JUDAS HAVING EVER BEEN SAVED BEING DESCRIBED AS 'A DEVIL' AND 'A SON
OF PERDITION' AS JUDAS WAS DESCRIBED.
1)
[Compare Eph 1:13-14]:
B)
WHAT HAS LIGHT GOT TO DO WITH DARKNESS
1)
[Compare 2 Cor 6:14]:
2)
[Compare Eph 5:8]:
C)
JUDAS WAS CHARACTERIZED AS A DEVIL FROM THE BEGINNING
1)
[Compare John 6:70-71]:
D)
JUDAS WAS PROMPTED BY THE DEVIL TO BETRAY JESUS AT THE END
1)
[Compare John 13:2]:
E)
JUDAS WAS FULLY POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL AT THE END
1)
[Compare Jn 13:27]:
F)
JUDAS WAS CHARACTERIZED BY JESUS AS A MAN DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION, LIT. A
MAN OF PERDITION FROM THE BEGINNING
1)
[Compare John 17:12]:
VI)
JUST AS BEING A DEVIL IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SAYING "GET BEHIND
ME SATAN" SO PETER IS NOT IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS JUDAS
A)
PETER WAS EXPRESSING A HUMAN VIEWPOINT, HE HAD THE THINGS OF MEN IN MIND
NOT THE THINGS OF GOD
1)
[Compare Mt 16:22-23]:
B)
JUDAS WAS CHARACTERIZED AS A DEVIL
1)
[Compare John 6:70-71]:
VII)
JUDAS BEING DESCRIBED AS BEING PROTECTED AND KEPT SAFE AND THEN LOST
DOES NOT MEAN HE LOST HIS SALVATION
A)
[Compare Jn 17:12]:
VIII)
NUMEROUS CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCAL BIBLE PASSAGES DECLARE THAT SALVATION
ONCE RECEIVED CANNOT BE LOST
A)
[Eph 1:13-14]:
1)
HAVING BELIEVED PORTRAYS A SINGLE MOMENT OF BELIEVING ALONE RESULTING IN
AN ETERNALLY SECURE REDEMPTION
a)
HAVING BELIEVED ONE IS INCLUDED IN CHRIST FOREVER
b)
INDIVIDUALS AT THE MOMENT OF HAVING BELIEVED ARE SEALED PERMANENTLY INTO
CHRIST WITH THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT
c)
INDIVIDUALS AT THE MOMENT OF HAVING BELIEVED ARE SEALED PERMANENTLY INTO
CHRIST WITH THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT WHO HIMSELF IS A DEPOSIT
GUARANTEEING OUR [ETERNAL] INHERITANCE
d)
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE DEPOSIT, THE ABSOLUTE EARNEST, THE ABSOLUTE
GUARANTOR OF THE [ETERNAL] INHERITANCE OF THE BELIEVER WHICH IS THE
REDEMPTION OF THE BELIEVER, I.E., HIS FINAL PERFECT STATE WHEN HE HAS
BEEN COMPLETELY REDEEMED TO LIVE WITH GOD FOREVER
e)
HAVING BELIEVED THE BELIEVER IS NOW GOD'S POSSESSION AND IT IS ALL TO
THE GLORY OF GOD INFERRING ETERNAL SECURITY
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